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Sometimes hard UI can be a blessing

UX Planet

Desirable difficulties in B2B and B2C product design — and what research on disfluent fonts can teach us. After all, when the product is built for professionals, a more complex interface that offers greater flexibility is often welcomed by its users. You read this correctly: performance was better with the bad font.

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Let’s Talk About Faster Horses

The Product Coalition

Photo by Martin Damboldt Whenever I tell product people that they must talk to customers, someone brings up the famous Henry Ford quote about faster horses: “ If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.” I went to do some research to figure out whether it was true or not. But wait, it doesn’t stop there!

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Product to Product: Atlassian’s Evan Michner on why PMs need to be great writers

Roadmunk

Welcome to our third episode of Product to Product —a podcast for / by product people. Listen below: In this episode we have Evan Michner , Principal Product Manager at Atlassian —specifically for their chat tools, Stride and HipChat. Evan is one of those product managers who, as he describes it, stumbled into product.

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Power Up: Three Ways to Increase Your Product Leadership Power

Roman Pichler

It’s all too tempting to fall back onto less skilful habits and become impatient, tense and stressed, say something we regret afterwards, or pass on the pressure to the development team. To increase your expertise, strengthen your understanding of the market or domain and the product, as well as your product management savviness.

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TEI 338: Better OKRs, with the person who wrote the original OKR book – with Christina Wodtke

Product Innovation Educators

A tool to help product managers accomplish more. Product improvements and product innovation too frequently suffer from accomplishing less than we want. Her name is Christina Wodtke, and she is a lecturer at Stanford, sharing insight into human innovation and high-performing teams. OKRs allow people to meet their goals.

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The tools we use: Challenging dogma in the design process

Intercom, Inc.

Many of us in the design and technology community pride ourselves on being tool builders, creating products that others can use to get things done. You’d struggle because the tool is so bad! You can build a product and influence the people who use it. You can watch a video of the talk above, or read an edited transcript below.

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How do you kill a bad product idea?

DISQO

When you look at your roadmap, how confident are you that the products and features on it will be successful? When we surveyed 140 product managers, 1 in 2 said that their C-suite has direct input for what goes on the roadmap. Unfortunately, this is the inverse of how product managers would seemingly like it to be.